Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Plot Synopsis

Plot Synopsis

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha recounts (approximately) one year in the life of a Dublin ten-year-old, Patrick "Paddy" Clarke, especially his relationships with Sinbad (Francis), his younger brother, his parents and his schoolmates and teachers. It begins with him being a mischievous boy roaming around local Barrytown and ends with his father departing from the family, forcing the boy to take up adult responsibilities in his now single-parent home.

Awards
Preceded by
The English Patient
with Sacred Hunger		 Man Booker Prize recipient
1993		 Succeeded by
How late it was, how late
Roddy Doyle
Novels
The Barrytown Trilogy
  • The Commitments (1987)
  • The Snapper (1990)
  • The Van (1991)
Paula Spencer
  • Family (TV, 1994)
  • The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996)
  • Paula Spencer (2006)
The Last Roundup
  • A Star Called Henry (1999)
  • Oh, Play That Thing! (2004)
  • The Dead Republic (2010)
Children's novels
  • Not Just for Christmas (1999)
  • The Giggler Treatment (2000)
  • Rover Saves Christmas (2001)
  • The Meanwhile Adventures (2004)
  • Wilderness (2007)
  • Her Mother's Face (2008)
Other
  • Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993)
Short stories
  • The Deportees (2008) Bullfighting (2011)
Films
  • The Commitments (1991)
  • The Snapper (1993)
  • The Van (1996)
  • When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
  • New Boy (2008)
Theatre
  • Brownbread (1987)
  • War (1989)
  • The Woman Who Walked into Doors (2003)
  • The Playboy of the Western World (2007)

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